One thing i always missed in gnomeicu or any other icq clone in linux was keyboard shortcut ( ctrl + shift + i for pop a msg, ctrl + shift + a for pop contact list). In fact i really _hate_ to leave keyboard to just click in the applet and come back to keyboard to answer. Here is a little hack in C solving this (by now).

Code:

/* A little hack to send commands to gnomeICU.
*
* This code is borrowed heavily (read: cut&paste) from gnomeicu-applet.
* Thanks Jeremy.
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